What voices are you listening to? We all have negative voices in our lives. Maybe an overly stern father, a local bully who terrorized you as a kid, or your own voice relentlessly tearing down your self-esteem. Satan uses those voices to steal our identity and deny us our, uh, destiny.
If you listen to the voices of this world, you will never become who God has already made you to be. When you were born again, your life was united with Jesus' life. Your spirit was made holy and forever united with Christ. Your identity from that point on was not who you are, but who you are in Christ.
Everything Jesus has becomes yours. This is the amazing promise of Ephesians 1:3:
"Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm has already been lavished upon us as a love gift from our wonderful heavenly Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus—all because He sees us wrapped into Christ."
The NIV translates this same verse:
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ."
Wow. Every spiritual blessing in heaven is yours because of the life you now share with Jesus—the union you have with Him. God blessed you with every spiritual blessing in heaven. No man or devil can take them away.
This happened because your whole life is lived as a branch connected to Jesus, the vine. The life of the vine flows into the branches—it’s natural. Jesus' life and all the spiritual blessings of heaven naturally flow into your life. Not someday in heaven, but here on earth now (see John 15).
Every spiritual blessing in heaven is yours in and through Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:20 says:
"For no matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ. And so through Him, the 'Amen' is spoken by us to the glory of God."